***Spaniard Revisionist, Pedro Varela, arrested***

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Spanish Revisionist Publisher Re-Arrested!


The Barnes Review Newsletter, 4/16/06


BARCELONA, CATALONIA, SPAIN. On Tuesday, April 11, 2006, the 
revisionist publisher Pedro Varela was arrested at his Libraria 
Europa bookstore in the Catalan capital for "defending and justifying 
genocide" by publishing books such as Joaquin Bochaca's Mito[Myth] de 
los 6 miliones and, strangely, "putting in danger the security of 
foreign states." [!?] (Bochaca is an author frequently published by 
The Barnes Review.)


Five hundred books were seized in the raid. Varela was under arrest 
from 11 a.m. Tuesday to 2 a.m. Wednesday, when he posted bail. Varela 
is subject to 5 years in prison if convicted.


The photo of the handsome Varela in handcuffs being led away by a 
female "ninja"-type police officerr made front-page headlines in 
Barcelona. [see photograph, 
<http://www.davidduke.com/images/PedroinCuffs.jpg>http://www.davidduke.com//images/PedroinCuffs.jpg]


Ironically, one book he is accused of publishing is a standard, 
classic 1971 work on the subject of race and IQ by the great 
scientist Hans Eysenck, Race, Intelligence and Education, published 
in the U.S. as The IQ Argument. Eysenck, a German who left the Third 
Reich in the 1930s out of opposition to its policies, authored 50 
books and 900 academic articles, and was one of the most highly 
regarded scientific psychologists in the world.  His book Race, 
Intelligence and Education was even carried until eight or nine years 
ago by the biggest supermarket chain in Spain, El Cortes Ingles, 
owned by the Jewish Koplovitz family.


The federal prosecutor for Barcelona who caused his arrest is a Mr. 
Mena, a former Maoist who is now a "democrat."


Varela has had previous contacts with the "justice system" of his 
country, as well as that of Austria, thus he is a "recidivist," which 
may affect the outcome of his current indictment.  He was arrested 
first in December 1996 on similar charges of defending genocide. 
Twenty thousand books plus other items were seized and later ordered 
burned.


On November 16, 1998 a Spanish court sentenced Varela to five years 
imprisonment for "incitement to racial hatred" and for "denying or 
justifying genocide." The sentence was Spain's first conviction for 
"Holocaust denial." It is based on the country's 1995 anti-genocide 
and anti-discrimination law.


Until 1995 Spain had been both an oasis of freedom of speech and a 
land of political asylum for nationalist patriots on the run such as 
the Belgian Leon Degrelle, the German WWII officers Otto Remer and 
Otto Skorczeny, and the Austrian revisionist publishers Walter 
Ochensberger and Gerd Honsik. It was the shining exception on a 
darkened European continent where so-called "hate speech" and 
so-called "Holocaust denial" everywhere else had been made illegal.


Spain until then had seemed a lasting haven of peace and freedom for 
patriots worldwide. There were the long-standing right-wing and 
politically incorrect traditions of both Catholic Spain, a nation 
that famously expelled its Jewish population in 1492, and more 
recently of the Franco dictatorship (1936-1977), which was allied 
with National Socialist Germany and after the war, remained fiercely 
anti-communist and pro-Catholic.


However, on May 11, 1995  the Spanish parliament revised the 
country's criminal code by creating the crimes of  "justifing 
genocide" and "promoting racial hatred." Signed into law by Prime 
Minister Felipe Gonzalez and King Juan Carlos, the preamble of the 
1995 legislation claimed that revisionist books lead to violence:


"The proliferation in several European countries of incidents of 
racist and anti-Semitic violence, carried out under the flags and 
symbols of Nazi ideology, obliges the democratic states to take 
decisive action to fight against this."


Thus it was to fight violence that black-garbed police ninjas seized 
the historian and publisher Pedro Varela and hauled him off to jail.


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Sources:


1)     Telephone conversation of Sunday, April 16, 2006 between John 
de Nugent and revisionist author Joaquin Bochaca of Barcelona, a 
friend of Varela.

2)     <http://www.davidduke.com/>www.davidduke.com

3)     Wikipedia on "Hans Eysenck": 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Eysenck>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Eysenck

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